The Weekend Read
Listen to Australia's best writers and thinkers read out longform essays from The Monthly magazine, the country's leading publication on politics, current affairs and culture.
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Sasha Gattermayr on an obsession with carnivoro...
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Quentin Sprague on shocking reports in the Abor...
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Richard King on how ChatGPT is changing how kno...
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Lucianne Tonti on the battle to stop wasting br...
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Sophie Cunningham on the cost of native logging
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The late Robert Adamson on fishing the river he...
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Erin O’Dwyer on how to design housing for happi...
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Clem Bastow on borrowing life lessons from Doll...
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‘A patch of land’: Gardening with Laura Tingle
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Surfing the little breaks, with Sarah Walker
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Sam Vincent on the overdue arrival of native Au...
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Cate Kennedy on the collective power of song
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Jock Serong on the coral windows to our oceans’...
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Bronwyn Adcock on a terror suspect held for alm...
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Don Watson on how to be a prime minister
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Anna Goldsworthy on the importance of music and...
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Richard Cooke on NFTs and digital art
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‘The first victim’
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Mark McKenna on ‘The Stunted Country’
Today, Mark McKenna, professor of history at the University of Sydney, will be reading his piece from the latest edition of The Monthly.It's called 'The Stunted Country', and in it, he argues that there can be no possibility of an Aus...
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Richard Denniss on the worst policy failure in ...
Today, Richard Denniss, chief economist at The Australia Institute, will be reading his cover story from the latest edition of The Monthly.It's called 'The needle and the damage done', and in it, he argues that the federal government’...
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Helen Garner’s lockdown diaries, 2021
Today, Helen Garner, one of Australia’s most acclaimed authors, will be reading her piece from the latest issue of The Monthly. It features entries from her diaries, covering her experience during this year’s lockdown in Melbourne.Guest:...
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Hugh White on the folly of the War on Terror
Today, Hugh White, emeritus professor of strategic studies at the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Australian National University, reads his cover essay from the latest issue of The Monthly.It’s called ‘War of Error’. It explores the failures o...
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Scott Ludlam on Julian Assange
Today, Scott Ludlam, ICAN ambassador and former Australian Greens Senator, reads his cover essay from the latest issue of The Monthly.It’s called ‘The Endgame’. It explores the trial of Julian Assange, and the powers fighting to extradite him, while...
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Richard Flanagan on why he writes
Today, Richard Flanagan, Booker prize winner and author of The Living Sea of Waking Dreams, reads his essay from the latest issue of The Monthly. It’s called ‘To be free’ and it explores why he writes, and, in his words “the need to write against the d...
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Sarah Krasnostein on the most hated man
Today, Sarah Krasnostein, the best-selling author of ‘The Trauma Cleaner’, reads her essay from the latest issue of The Monthly. It’s called ‘The most hated man’ and it explores the sentencing of Richard Pusey, who was convicted of outragin...
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